Chris Wormald

He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2017 Birthday Honours.

In March 2012, Wormald left the Cabinet Office to return to the Department for Education as its Permanent Secretary, replacing Sir David Bell who had retired to be the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading. As of 2015, Wormald was paid a salary of between £160,000 and £164,999 by DCLG, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time. In January 2016 it was announced that Wormald he would move to the Department of Health later in 2016, to replace Dame Una O'Brien after her retirement as the permanent secretary there.

Wormald transferred in 2006 to the newly formed Department for Communities and Local Government, promoted to be the Director-General of Local Government and Regeneration. In 2009, he moved to the Cabinet Office as the Head of the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat, taking over from Paul Britton. Following the general election in 2010 and the consequent change of the position of the Deputy Prime Minister, he additionally became the Head of the Deputy Prime Minister's Office.

Educated at Rutlish School in Merton and then St John's College, Oxford, Wormald joined the Civil Service in 1991 into the Department for Education (later the Department for Education and Employment). Rising to Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2001 until 2004, he then worked on the Academies programme.

Sir Christopher Stephen Wormald KCB (born 30 October 1968) is a British civil servant, serving since 2016 as the Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care, having previously served since 2012 in the same role at the Department for Education.